By Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold

Originally published in IROSF, April 2008

We’ve written before about where ideas come from and how to work with them, in “Anatomy of an Idea.”  This month we thought we’d take on the generation of ideas.

Stories flow through all of us, all the time.  We think in narrative structures, we sometimes dream in terms of plot.  Myth and religion are based on story, psychoanalysis as well.  Stories are the fabric of life.  Children come home from school laughing ab...